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0393 Light Armored Reconnaissance (LAR) Operations Chief

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Overview

A Light Armored Reconnaissance Operations Chief advises commanders and staff on tactical employment, weapons systems, fire support planning, resources, equipment, and unit readiness. The chief supervises combat or logistics operations centers, manages information flow through C4I systems, coordinates orders and reports, oversees personnel and training plans, and supervises unit embarkation and debarkation.

Minimum clearance: TS/SCI

Core Skills

  • Command center information flow coordination
  • Personnel assignments that preserve trained crews
  • Unit embarkation and debarkation coordination
  • Equipment condition and resource use advising

Civilian Career Paths

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Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers

Supervising logistics operations centers, coordinating embarkation and debarkation, and advising on equipment condition transfer to coordinating transportation and distribution operations.

How to prepare: Build a civilian shipment-planning work sample that connects receiving, equipment availability, staffing, and shipping with customer orders and accounting.

What the civilian work involves
  • Supervise the activities of workers engaged in receiving, storing, testing, and shipping products or materials.
  • Inspect physical conditions of warehouses, vehicle fleets, or equipment and order testing, maintenance, repairs, or replacements.
  • Collaborate with other departments to integrate logistics with business systems or processes, such as customer sales, order management, accounting, or shipping.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Project

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 0393

    [1] MOS 0393 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 28587; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Command center information flow coordination, Personnel assignments that preserve trained crews, Unit embarkation and debarkation coordination, Equipment condition and resource use advising, Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers (O*NET 11-3071.00)

  2. O*NET: Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers (O*NET 11-3071.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 0393

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